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Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:49 pm**

So I have a Western Digital My Book that seems to have failed. The computers I hook it up to can still see it, but only see half the drive as "unallocated". The half with the data is not appearing.

I was told that it's highly likely that the data could be recovered, but I don't want to spend $500-$3000 getting that done.

I know a local company has the software to do data recovery, and their only stipulation is that the drive has to be spinning...well, this one spins, thus I'd like to find that or similar software and try it myself.

Anyone know the name of software that performs this function and where I might find it?

Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:17 pm**

I tried some free data recovery apps a long time ago, I think I just googled "data recovery." They were 'eh' at recovering soe pics i accidentally overwrote.

If you have mechanical failure on that HD, though, like half the arms to longer reading half the platters, you know software isn't going to help you.

Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:40 pm**

i recently lost the boot drive to my laptop (2 weeks ago). it was something physical, as i could get some data, but others it would just spin forever.

After a couple of days of getting some data off it, i tried a recovery program that tried to scan the entire HD. apparently the heads went somewhere they shouldnt, and i could never access it again.

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:39 pm**

I tried running a freeware program Friday afternoon, but it couldn't see the unallocated space. Tried another after creating this post and it seemed to be grabbing the missing files from the unallocated space, but I left work before it was finished. I'll know Monday if it worked.

If not, a few of our fine forum members have given me a few options. Thank you to them.

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